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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A the Crusades.
B love.
C religion.
D dancing.
Question #2
A dancelike song for several solo voices.
B polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
C piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
D polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text.
Question #3
A read musical notation.
B play a musical instrument.
C All answers are correct.
D be skilled in dance.
Question #4
A with proper pronunciation and tone quality.
B away from the actual religious services.
C exclusively in the English language.
D with the members of the congregation.
Question #5
A protests of Martin Luther.
B deliberations of the Council of Trent.
C music of Palestrina.
D complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
Question #7
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
B polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
C polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
D dancelike song for several solo voices.
Question #8
A The castle
B The church
C The king’s court
D The merchant’s living room
Question #9
A Italy.
B Flanders.
C Germany.
D Spain.
Question #10
A Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance.
B The Renaissance period is sometimes called “the golden age” of a cappella choral music.
C The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic.
D Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific poetic images.
Question #11
A Scandinavia.
B Spain.
C Flanders.
D England.
Question #12
A 1000 and 1150.
B 1450 and 1600.
C 1150 and 1450.
D 1600 and 1750.
Question #13
A monks in monasteries.
B knights in castles.
C professors in universities.
D wandering minstrels or jongleurs.
Question #14
A Ave Maria
B Credo
C Kyrie
D Gloria
Question #15
A Guillaume de Machaut.
B Pope Gregory I.
C Perotin.
D Leonin.
Question #16
A Italian and French music of the fourteenth century.
B the new art of baroque painters.
C German music of the sixteenth century.
D paintings from the new world.
Question #17
A Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
B Machaut and Josquin.
C All answers are correct.
D Leonin and Perotin.
Question #18
A All answers are correct.
B indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music.
C were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.
D are the first important composers known by name.
Question #19
A having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
B adding orchestral instruments to church music.
C harmonizing melodies with chords.
D placing new melodic lines against known chants.
Question #20
A Rome.
B Reims.
C London.
D Paris.
Question #21
A Jongleurs
B Organum
C Alleluia
D Ostinato
Question #22
A All answers are correct.
B the French nobles began to sing hunting songs together.
C monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant.
D musicians composed new music to accompany dancing.
Question #23
A The Madonna was treated as a beautiful young woman.
B The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.
C The humanists were captivated by the pagan cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.
D The humanists focused on human life and its accomplishments.
Question #24
A stringed instrument.
B secular song form.
C song of worship.
D dance.
Question #25
A monasteries.
B monks and nuns.
C church services.
D dancing.
Question #26
A All answers are correct.
B played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
C performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
D lived on the lowest level of society.
Question #27
A Hildegard of Bingen.
B Beatriz de Dia.
C Péronne d’Armentières.
D Frauenlob.
Question #28
A Hildegard of Bingen.
B Pope Gregory I.
C the monks at the church of St. Trophime.
D the nuns of Rupertsberg.
Question #29
A All answers are correct.
B abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.
C the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived.
D a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.
Question #30
A All answers are correct.
B is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah.
C may be translated as “praise ye the Lord.”
D is often used in Gregorian chants.
Question #31
A like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones.
B different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only five different tones.
C different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only six different tones.
D completely different from any other form of scale.
Question #32
A focused on human life and its accomplishments.
B condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity.
C focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell.
D treated the Madonna as a childlike unearthly creature.
Question #33
A sixth
B ninth
C fourteenth
D thirteenth
Question #34
A the worship service and the praise service.
B the office and the mass.
C the salvation service and the holiness service.
D the monastery and the convent.
Question #35
A All answers are correct.
B reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604.
C composed all of the Gregorian chants.
D published all of the Gregorian chants.
Question #36
A infrequently, remaining on a single tone for long stretches.
B by leaps over a wide range of pitches.
C stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
D only by perfect intervals.
Question #37
A It is usually polyphonic in texture.
B It conveys a calm, otherworldly quality.
C Its rhythm is flexible, without meter.
D The melodies tend to move by step within a narrow range of pitches.
Question #38
A is set to sacred Latin texts.
B was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years.
C retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ.
D All answers are correct.
Question #39
A Trouvère songs.
B estampies.
C contemporary gospel.
D Gregorian chant.
Question #40
A preferred instrumental music in
B wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
C encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
D forbade the use of music in
Question #41
A used only with wind instruments.
B performed by as many musical instruments as possible.
C used only as a discreet accompaniment.
D banned entirely.
Question #42
A added a sacred quality to the mass.
B made it possible for more musicians to be employed.
C bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship.
D frustrated the nobles in their attempts to control the church.
Question #43
A silly, humorous dance in duple meter.
B lively dance in triple meter.
C wooden instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece.
D stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
Question #44
A association with minstrels and jongleurs.
B sacred quality and background.
C use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
D earlier role in pagan rites.
Question #45
A the piano.
B religious worship.
C the concert hall.
D dancing.
Question #46
A Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.
B Secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.
C A wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived.
D Secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music.
Question #47
A five
B two
C four
D three
Question #48
A homophonic
B imitative
C polyphonic
D monophonic
Question #49
A lute
B regals
C sackbut
D shawm
Question #50
A 1150-1450.
B 450-1000.
C 1000-1150.
D 450-1450.
